scholarly journals Types of Anchor Institution Initiatives

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-105
Author(s):  
Paul Garton
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Civic Leaders ◽  
Relative Lack ◽  
Differential Effects ◽  
Anchor Institutions ◽  
Sampling Process ◽  
Shared Language ◽  
Anchor Institution

Interest in universities as anchor institutions within their communities and cities is growing as civic leaders search for ways to build local wealth. Systematic analysis of the effects of anchor institution initiatives remains difficult due to the disparate nature of anchor initiatives and a relative lack of a shared language describing the work. This article reviews the anchor literature to summarize current understandings of universities and economic development, then develops a typology of anchor institution initiatives based upon the literature. The typology is based upon the type of capital leveraged by initiatives: (a) financial, (b) physical, (c) intellectual, and (d) human. The author then uses the typology to categorize a number of initiatives found within the literature and through a rough sampling process. This typology offers a shared language for scholars to use to guide discussions around universities as anchor institutions, and, more importantly, the typology can frame analyses of the differential effects, costs, and benefits of different anchor strategies.

The Rise of Anchor Institutions and the Threat to Community Health: Protecting Community Wealth, Building Community Power

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence T. Brown ◽  
Ashley Bachelder ◽  
Marisela B. Gomez ◽  
Alicia Sherrell ◽  
Imani Bryan
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Health Research ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Anchor Institutions ◽  
Health Related Research ◽  
Research Parks ◽  
Wealth Building

Academic institutions are increasingly playing pivotal roles in economic development and community redevelopment in cities around the United States. Many are functioning in the role of anchor institutions and building technology, biotechnology, or research parks to facilitate biomedical research. In the process, universities often partner with local governments, implementing policies that displace entire communities and families, thereby inducing a type of trauma that researcher Mindy Thompson Fullilove has termed “root shock.” We argue that displacement is a threat to public health and explore the ethical implications of university-led displacement on public health research, especially the inclusion of vulnerable populations into health-related research. We further explicate how the legal system has sanctioned the exercise of eminent domain by private entities such as universities and developers.Strategies that communities have employed in order to counter such threats are highlighted and recommended for communities that may be under the threat of university-led displacement. We also offer a critical look at the three dominant assumptions underlying university-sponsored development: that research parks are engines of economic development, that deconcentrating poverty via displacement is effective, and that poverty is simply the lack of economic or financial means. Understanding these fallacies will help communities under the threat of university-sponsored displacement to protect community wealth, build power, and improve health.

scholarly journals Anchoring the social economy at the metropolitan scale: Findings from the Liverpool City Region

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 004209802097265
Author(s):  
Matthew Thompson ◽  
Alan Southern ◽  
Helen Heap
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Future Research ◽  
City Region ◽  
Anchor Institutions ◽  
Urban Economic Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Economies ◽  
The City

This article revisits debates on the contribution of the social economy to urban economic development, specifically focusing on the scale of the city region. It presents a novel tripartite definition – empirical, essentialist, holistic – as a useful frame for future research into urban social economies. Findings from an in-depth case study of the scale, scope and value of the Liverpool City Region’s social economy are presented through this framing. This research suggests that the social economy has the potential to build a workable alternative to neoliberal economic development if given sufficient tailored institutional support and if seen as a holistic integrated city-regional system, with anchor institutions and community anchor organisations playing key roles.

A Comparison of IHEs and Non-IHEs as Anchor Institutions and Lead Agents of Promise Neighborhoods Projects

2021 ◽  
pp. 001312452110497
Author(s):  
Whitney Impellizeri ◽  
Vera J. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Considerable Time ◽  
Multiple Stakeholders ◽  
Anchor Institutions ◽  
Medical Institutions ◽  
Academic Medical ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Promise Neighborhood ◽  
Anchor Institution

Place-based initiatives, such as the federal Promise Neighborhoods grant, attempt to coordinate interventions, supports, and services with a myriad of organizations to targeted communities. Although Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs), inclusive of academic medical institutions, are among the most overall researched anchor institution, Non-Institutions of Higher Education (NIHEs) have led more Promise Neighborhood grants since the inception of the program in 2010. Therefore, this study compared the revitalization efforts proposed by IHEs ( n = 5) and NIHE ( n = 5) in their applications for Promise Neighborhoods grants awarded between 2016 and 2018. Although similarities existed within and across the applications from NIHEs and IHEs, namely focused on improving academics and health/wellness, the specific interventions, supports, and services proposed by each lead institution largely reflected the individual needs of the targeted communities. The findings from this study illustrate how IHEs and NIHEs are similarly positioned to effectuate change within their communities. Implementing place-based initiatives requires anchor institutions to allocate considerable time and resources in order to adapt to the current needs of the community in real time. Therefore, future lead agents of Promise Neighborhoods should seek to promote an environment that fosters on-going collaboration and mutual trust across and within multiple stakeholders, while also exploring sustainability efforts to extend gains made beyond the duration of the grant.

scholarly journals A Preliminary Controlled Vocabulary for the Description of Hagiographic Texts

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 585 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. DiValerio
Keyword(s):  
Controlled Vocabulary ◽  
Formal Description ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Shared Language ◽  
The Creation

As a genre defined by its content rather than by its form, the extreme diversity of the kinds of texts that can be considered “hagiographic” often proves an impediment to the progress of comparative hagiology. This essay offers some suggestions for the creation of a controlled vocabulary for the formal description of hagiographic texts, demonstrating how having a more highly developed shared language at our disposal will facilitate both the systematic analysis and the comparative discussion of hagiography.

scholarly journals Contextualized indigenous entrepreneurial models: A systematic review of indigenous entrepreneurship literature

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 886-906 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Croce
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Entrepreneurship Ecosystems

AbstractGovernmental development strategies focus on entrepreneurship as a major resource for the economic development of indigenous peoples. While initiatives and programs are locally based, there is a debate in the academic literature about how contextual factors affect the identification of indigenous entrepreneurship. The purpose of this paper is to analyze and integrate indigenous entrepreneurship literature to identify the main indigenous entrepreneurship models. Thus, a systematic literature review was conducted. In total, 25 relevant articles were identified in selected electronic databases and manual searches of Australian Business Deans Council ranked journals from January 1, 1995 to the end of 2016. Using a systematic analysis of sociocultural contexts and locations, the paper proposed that a typology of contextualized indigenous entrepreneurship models was possible, that were classified as urban, remote and rural. The parameters of these models, and their potential theoretical and practical applications to the study and practice of indigenous entrepreneurship ecosystems were also outlined.

Redressing Gender Inequality in Employment: the National and Sub-regional Policy ‘Fit’

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally-Anne Barnes ◽  
Anne Green ◽  
Michael Orton ◽  
Jenny Bimrose
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Regional Policy ◽  
Local Economic Development ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Limited Ability ◽  
Relative Lack ◽  
Effective Level

This article examines the ‘fit’ between policy development regarding gender inequality in employment at sub-regional and national (UK) level, in particular focusing on the experience of women. Drawing on research undertaken in Coventry and Warwickshire, the article explores the question of how policy development at sub-regional level fits with national policy, and whether the sub-region is an appropriate, or effective, level at which to develop policy on gender inequality in employment. It is argued that while there needs to be recognition of the limited ability of sub-regional policy to confront structural issues, policy development at this level does offer potential strengths in redressing both gender inequality in employment and the relative lack of a gender dimension in local economic development.

scholarly journals Timber industrial complex as an instrument of interaction of the state and the Finno-Ugric region: in search of new research approaches

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 78-85
Author(s):  
Oleg I. Kulagin
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
The State ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
New Research ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Center Periphery

The article attempts to outline new approaches to the study of the timber industry complex as one of the main instruments of interaction between the State and Karelia, as the Finno-Ugric region, during the second half of the 20th century. The aim of the study is to find the theories and concepts that could form the basis for the systematic analysis of the interaction. The urgency of the study is related to the fact that for many forest-producing regions of Russia, including Karelia, the result of the regional state social and economic policy during the studied period turned out to be largely negative. The research methodology is based on the use of modernization theory and the concept “center – periphery”. The article is based on the research of international and Russian scholars which interpret these concepts. The comparison of theoretical material with the historical experience of development of Karelia in the second half of the 20th century allows to draw a conclusion about the possibility of successful combination of the noted research approaches. Various interpretations of the theory of modernization made it possible draw a conclusion about the peripheral nature of the modernization processes in this region in relation to socio-economic development of Karelia. Using the concept “center – periphery”, according to which the unevenness of economic growth and the process of spatial polarization inevitably generate disparities between the so-called center and periphery, has shown its potential in the study of the peculiarities of interaction between the state and the Finno-Ugric region. Comparison of these two concepts makes it possible to draw a conclusion about the high degree of their mutual complementarity and the possibility in the long term to propose the realization of a center-peripheral model of regional modernization in the social and economic development of Karelia.

scholarly journals Identification of features of a green organization based on bibliometric analysis

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliana Smirnova
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Global Society ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Environmental Development ◽  
A Priority

As sustainable development has become a priority of today’s global society, more and more organizations in their activities take into account the main directions of sustainable development − the closely interrelated aspects of economic development, social development and environmental development. It can be claimed that sustainable development is one of the essential preconditions for the formation of a green organization. In analysing the concept of a green organization, it is important to identify the essential features of a green organization. Scientific literature provides descriptions of certain components or processes of a green organization, which emphasize some or other aspects of the ‘greenness’ of organizations; however, there is a lack of the identification of a set of features of a green organization. Systematic analysis of scientific literature and bibliometric analysis were applied to identify the set of the essential features of the green organization.

scholarly journals ANTHROPOLOGICAL DIMENSION OF ECONOMIC IN KAROL WOJTYLA'S TEACHINGS

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-39
Author(s):  
Mariia Dovhan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Spiritual Needs ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Human Value ◽  
Economic Sphere

The research provides a systematic analysis of Karol Wojtyla's views on human development in the context of economic development. Karol Wojtyla focuses on the analysis of the economic sphere of society in view of the observance of human rights and the realization of human freedoms, as well as the possibility of developing one's morality. It is substantiated that the current state of the economy leads to a single dimension of a human being, the crisis of identity and the degradation of human values. Given the misinterpretation of a human being in modern economic systems, where it is used as a tool, not an aim, the thinker emphasizes the need for economic transformation. It is established that Karol Wojtyla regards the development of the economy through the prism of the moral priorities of a modern human being. He connects human self-destruction with modern transformations of the scientific and technical sphere, and explains the emergence of nihilism through the crisis of rationality. The paper seeks to analyze the main dangers in the field of economics, due to which the understanding of human value is lost. Simultaneously, it considers the recommendations of Karol Wojtyla on changing this state of affairs. The thinker emphasizes the dignity of every person, because the recognition of a person as the highest value is not only the existence of laws and norms in the state which would guarantee a decent life in the socio-economic sphere, but also meeting national, cultural and spiritual needs. Without the right of private property, according to him, an autonomy and development of a person are inconceivable. Karol Wojtyla considers the formation of a new world economic system based on the principles of justice and equality to be the answer to the problem of a proper place of a human being in economic systems. In contrast to profit as a regulator of the economy, the thinker raises the importance of a human factor in economic development, emphasizes the key role of orderly and creative human labor and its components, namely initiative and entrepreneurship. The lack of knowledge and skills are viewed as reasons which do not allow getting out of poverty. It has been established that, according to Karol Wojtyla, impersonal being is a value and a moral obligation to the subject who is a person.

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